1、Designation:E223013An American National StandardStandard Practice forThermal Qualification of Type B Packages for RadioactiveMaterial1This standard is issued under the fixed designation E2230;the number immediately following the designation indicates the year oforiginal adoption or,in the case of re
2、vision,the year of last revision.A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval.Asuperscript epsilon()indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.1.Scope1.1 This practice defines detailed methods for thermalqualification of“Type B”radioactive materials packages
3、 underTitle 10,Code of Federal Regulations,Part 71(10CFR71)inthe United States or,under International Atomic EnergyAgency Regulation TS-R-1.Under these regulations,packagestransporting what are designated to be Type B quantities ofradioactive material shall be demonstrated to be capable ofwithstandi
4、ng a sequence of hypothetical accidents withoutsignificant release of contents.1.2 This standard does not purport to address all of thesafety concerns,if any,associated with its use.It is theresponsibility of the user of this standard to establish appro-priate safety and health practices and determi
5、ne the applica-bility of regulatory limitations prior to use.1.3 This standard is used to measure and describe theresponse of materials,products,or assemblies to heat andflame under controlled conditions,but does not by itselfincorporate all factors required for fire hazard or fire riskassessment of
6、 the materials,products,or assemblies underactual fire conditions.1.4 Fire testing is inherently hazardous.Adequate safe-guards for personnel and property shall be employed inconducting these tests.2.Referenced Documents2.1 ASTM Standards:2E176 Terminology of Fire StandardsIEEE/ASTM SI-10 Internatio
7、nal System of Units(SI)TheModernized Metric System2.2 Federal Standard:Title10,CodeofFederalRegulations,Part71(10CFR71),Packaging and Transportation of RadioactiveMaterial,United States Government Printing Office,Oc-tober 1,20042.3 Nuclear Regulatory Commission Standards:Standard Format and Content
8、of Part 71 Applications forApproval of Packaging of Type B Large Quantity andFissileRadioactiveMaterial,RegulatoryGuide7.9,United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission,United States Government Printing Office,1986Standard Review Plan for Transportation of RadioactiveMaterials,NUREG-1609,United States
9、 Nuclear Regula-tory Commission,United States Government PrintingOffice,May 19992.4 International Atomic Energy Agency Standards:Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Material,No.TS-R-1,(IAEA ST-1 Revised)International AtomicEnergy Agency,Vienna,Austria,1996Regulations for the Safe Trans
10、port of Radioactive Material,No.ST-2,(IAEA ST-2)International Atomic EnergyAgency,Vienna,Austria,19962.5 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Standard:Quality Assurance Program Requirements for NuclearFacilities,NQA-1,American Society of MechanicalEngineers,New York,20012.6 International Organiz
11、ation for Standards(ISO)Stan-dard:ISO9000:2000,QualityManagementSystemsFundamentals and Vocabulary,International Organizationfor Standards(ISO),Geneva,Switzerland,20003.Terminology3.1 DefinitionsFor definitions of terms used in this testmethod refer to the terminology contained in TerminologyE176 an
12、d ISO 13943.In case of conflict,the definitions givenin Terminology E176 shall prevail.3.2 Definitions of Terms Specific to This Standard:3.2.1 hypothetical accident conditions,na series of acci-dent environments,defined by regulation,that a Type Bpackage must survive without significant loss of con
13、tents.3.2.2 insolation,nsolar energy incident on the surface ofa package.1This practice is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee C26 on NuclearFuel Cycle and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee C26.13 on Spent Fueland High Level Waste.Current edition approved April 1,2013.Published April
14、 2013.Originallyapproved in 2002.Last previous edition approved in 2008 as E223008.DOI:10.1520/E2230-13.2For referenced ASTM standards,visit the ASTM website,www.astm.org,orcontact ASTM Customer Service at serviceastm.org.For Annual Book of ASTMStandards volume information,refer to the standards Doc
15、ument Summary page onthe ASTM website.Copyright ASTM International,100 Barr Harbor Drive,PO Box C700,West Conshohocken,PA 19428-2959.United States1 3.2.3 normal conditions of transport,na range ofconditions,defined by regulation,that a package must with-stand during normal usage.3.2.4 regulatory hyd
16、rocarbon fire,na fire environment,one of the hypothetical accident conditions,defined byregulation,that a package shall survive for 30 min withoutsignificant release of contents.3.2.5 thermal qualification,nthe portion of the certifica-tion process for a radioactive materials transportation packagethat includes the submittal,review,and approval of a SafetyAnalysis Report for Packages(SARP)through an appropriateregulatory authority,and which demonstrates that the packagemeets the thermal requirem